Knowsley Better Together A starting point not a

#Knowsley. Better. Together A starting point… not a conclusion; Racheal Jones Knowsley Community and Voluntary Services

Our joint commitment to Knowsley • Be open, transparent and promote equality and fairness within our relationship and throughout our practice with shared accountability to each other and to our communities in Knowsley • Innovate to co-design and co-produce new solutions to the needs and opportunities within our Knowsley communities • Acknowledge and respect the range of external statutory regulation that we are all subject to and work within our partnership to drive our commitment to excellent practice, acknowledging and respecting the limitations that external regulation can create • Acknowledge and constructively address real or perceived barriers to our relationship, including but not limited to differences in intentions, terminology used and the governance frameworks and standards we operate within • Recognise the financial constraints we are all working within • Strive to build the value of the Knowsley pound, social capital and social value as equal, meaningful and important local economic drivers • Recognise and value our shared leadership roles and contributions to support our community • Take shared responsibility to seek to support the Social Sector in ways other than funding, recognising this responsibility and offer will differ between partners

Securing our partnership Social Sector (Voluntary, Community, Faith and Social Enterprise) We will work within our social missions; • With commitment to Knowsley • Share our impact to communicate our success with each other and others • Continually build trust and confidence through openness and accountability • Recognise our complexity • Campaign with confidence and legitimacy to use our expertise responsibly • Harness the power of our critical mass through the skills, knowledge, experience and resources we hold • Raise awareness and offer solutions Knowsley Council We will work within our principles; • Be a community leader and always champion Knowsley • Build better partnerships and work together cooperatively • Listen to the community when making decisions • Spend locally, invest locally and recruit locally • Help people to be independent and to do more for themselves and each other • Prevent problems occurring or stop them getting worse • Use the best way of delivering services that leads to improved outcomes for Knowsley

Social Sector (Voluntary, Community, Faith and Social Enterprise) • We will use our reach into and across Knowsley communities to facilitate feedback from members of the community to help improve the delivery of programmes and services. We will ensure that consultation responses accurately reflect the views and experiences of users / communities • We will share knowledge based on our experience and information available to us to help shape and inform any analysis of the needs of communities to enable the appropriate allocation of resources. • We will work together and with the public sector to develop, and deliver, appropriate services within the context of available resources • We will provide opportunities for good quality volunteering experiences in Knowsley. We will celebrate the value of volunteers. Knowsley Council • We will change our internal processes (including commissioning and procurement) to enable greater participation by the Sector. • We will forward plan and market our intentions to the Sector to enable the Sector to do likewise in order to retain skills and expertise in local organisations. • We will speak with the sector when we develop policy and strategy. • We will listen, co-design, co-produce and innovate by valuing the skills and expertise that exists in the Knowsley community

We will work together to grow our social value David Parr – Chair of Knowsley CVS Andy Moorhead – Leader of the Council Signing of the deal #Knowsley. Better. Togethe r